a message for the good people who are trying to save others🩷✝️

you can't save people!

You can't and shouldn't make people believe in Christianity. I get it, you want people to have eternal life but it's like the old saying "You can bring a camel to the water but you can't force it to drink".

In John 4:5-42, there's this Samaritan woman that met Jesus at the well. After they talked, the woman went back to her village to tell everyone about Jesus. She was passionate telling everyone!

Some people took her word for it and believed her off of the word of her testimony and her own encounter with Jesus. But other people did not believe her just off of what she was saying. They said they needed to see this Jesus for themselves.
Now after they saw Jesus and spoke with Him is when they started believing.

Revelation: we are like that Samaritan woman that met God at the well. Now we want to tell everybody about God. Some people are going to take our word for it and some people will have to meet God for themselves.

Pray for others every night.
Trust God. Trust God. Trust God.

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SW-User

Christianity teaches of automatic eternal life. It's merely compartmented into heaven and hell and only the one is called eternal life; a bit confusing - even for the Christian.

Adstar · 56-60, M

@SW-User Yes everyone has eternal life according to Christianity.. But the question is where one will be spending that eternity.. Either with Jesus in Paradise.. Or with satan in the eternal lake of fire..

LadyGrace ·

@SW-User

Christianity teaches of automatic eternal life.

Christianity never teaches automatic eternal life. Salvation never comes automatically. The Bible never teaches automatic eternal life. A choice must be made, whether we want to accept Jesus as our Savior, or not, but it is never inherited through parents or anything else. A personal choice must be made. John 3:16 and 17 confirms that.

SW-User

@LadyGrace If there are no exceptions to people spending eternity in either heaven or hell then I must be right. Basic reasoning.

LadyGrace ·

@SW-User Maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying, because the Bible says we have to make a choice to either follow Christ or not if we want salvation. It never comes automatically and we know that because not everyone wants to accept Jesus as Savior or even wants to believe in God so this is never automatic. We're never automatically saved. If that were the case, then Jesus never would have had to die on the cross to actually save those who wish to have eternal life according to his Plan of Salvation.

SW-User

@LadyGrace You're moving the goalpost to a decision made before death. I don't contradict what the Bible says. I only clear up confusion it creates by mistakenly only calling eternity in heaven eternal life. Eternal existence in hell is also eternal life (of a bad quality).

LadyGrace ·

@SW-User I'm not moving anything. And I never said once that your contradicting what the Bible says. We're discussing okay? Not arguing. The Deathbed is not a good time to make a decision for Christ, although some have, and only God knows their hearts if they were sincere or not or just trying to get in favor with God for the only reason to get to heaven. But that's a mighty risky thing to do, to wait until one is dying, to make a decision for Christ.

Yes. I never said that eternal life only meant in heaven. You are right when you say that eternal life can be either in heaven or hell. There's no dispute about that. All I'm saying is that if one wants to have eternal life in heaven, that is not automatically given. It has to be asked for.

GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M

@SW-User

You're moving the goalpost to a decision made before death. I don't contradict what the Bible says. I only clear up confusion it creates by mistakenly only calling eternity in heaven eternal life. Eternal existence in hell is also eternal life (of a bad quality).

Eternal life in heaven with Christ is true life indeed. Eternal life in hell is not life at all but death being separated from God. God is the giver of life. When He created us, He gave us life, and has given us a chance to have eternal life through Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit. Those who reject God's good salvation end up in hell. Even though the live forever, they die an everlasting death without end; a torment no human can endure. Do you understand now?